Chapter 30: Wedding Preparations

(Jane's POV)

"Is all this really necessary Jane?" Raven asked while we sat in her room. I was showing he pictures of flowers, different set up we could do in the large garden, and all other wedding things.

"Yes it is, now we need a list of bridesmaids." I sad pulling out a pen and notepad.

"Well you," she said thinking, "Heidi, Chelsea, Renate, and how about that Chloe girl."

I shrugged, "ya that will be ok." I said putting down the names, "we need Alec to give us a list of his six grooms men. Since Chelsea and I have mates that means Afton and Santiago are already on the list."

"Ok are we done?" Raven asked looking hopeful.

"No," I replied, "we need to pick out flowers and decorations. We only have a month to prepare and these things take time to get. Tomorrow we are also going shopping for your dress and the bridesmaid's dresses." Raven sighed as I started showing her different decoration ideas.

"You and Alec also have to write your vows." I said while we choose out flowers and other decorations. Raven sighed and continued to look at the magazines and pictures.

"I like these decorations," she said showing me a wedding set up, "they would go perfect in the gardern."

"ok, and what flowers do you want?"

"Why buy flowers when we have four gardens full of beautiful flowers that we can use."

"Why didn't I think of that?" I mumbled. Raven laughed and we continued to plan.

(Alec's POV)

Jane was keeping Raven to herself so I had nothing to do. Right now I was in Marcus's library looking for a book to read. Suddenly someone grabbed me and pushed me into a chair.

"We have to have a bachelors party." Felix said clearly planning something.

"Why?" I asked getting out of the seat annoyed at him.

"Because it's tradition," Demetri said coming up to us, "besides how often do we have weddings?"

"Clearly not often enough." I muttered.

Afton, Vladimir, and Stefan had joined us by this point.

"What's going on?" Afton asked.

"We're planning the bachelor's party," Felix responded.

"I never agreed to the party." I said glaring at him.

"It doesn't matter, you're doing it anyways." Demetri said with a smirk.

"No I'm not," I growled.

"It's tradition Alec," Afton said, "you're having a party whether you like it or not."

"Looks like you're out numbered kid." Vladimir said patting my shoulder. My response was a growl.

"Great I'll start planning." Felix said with amusement in his eyes and left; Demetri followed smirking at me.

What are those idiots planning?

The next day I was walking towards Raven's room. On my way there Raven was being pulled down the hall by Jane, Heidi, and Chelsea.

"Can't we just go tomorrow?" Raven asked pouting like a child.

"No," Jane said, "the sooner we get this done the better." Raven looked like she was ready to throw a tantrum.

"What are you doing to my fiancée?" I asked walking up to them.

"They're kidnapping me Alec!" Raven said dramatically.

I crosses my arms and raised my eyebrows at Jane.

"We are going dress shopping." Jane said in her innocent tone.

"Alec," Raven said pouting, "I don't want to go."

"Well now whose side should I choose?" I asked smirking at my sister and Raven.

"I'm your sister," Jane said sternly.

"And I'm his fiancée." Raven said mimicking Jane's tone.

"I'm not convinced." I said

"How about I send you a wave of pain," Jane smirked, "would that convince you?"

I looked at Raven apologetically.

"Sorry," I said, "you shouldn't argue with Jane."

"That's not fair!" Raven pouted as the girls continued to drag her down the hall, "Alec come on, help me!"

"Have fun!" I said as they walked away.

(Jane's POV)

We had just arrived at the wedding store in Volterra. This store sold dresses for both the bride and bridesmaids. The store itself was huge because it was the only wedding store in Volterra.

"What should we shop for first?" Renata asked looking around at the dresses.

"How about we shop for the bridesmaid's dresses first." Raven said walking over to that section.

Cleaver girl...

We spent two hours trying on dresses and modeling them for Raven. She was going to pay for doing this to us.

While we were trying on dresses I noticed the girl Chloe looked a little distant.

"Something the matter Chloe?" I asked as me, Renata, and Chloe were looking at dresses while Heidi and Chelsea were trying on their choices.

"Oh it's nothing," She said smiling a little, "just have a lot on my mind."

"Do you want to talk about it?" Renata asked.

"It's nothing," she said, "just the nomad Peter offered to help me with my gift and he said I could travel and live with him and his mate."

"You're leaving the Volturi?" Renata asked. I wasn't suprised; it was very common for lower guard members to come and go. Sometimes they left for a while to explore the world then came back to Voltera. The ancients didn't mind because the lower guards could easily be replaced. Also they believed in allowing 'children' to 'find themselves' through traveling.

"What about Demetri?" I asked looking at her curious about if she still had a crush on him.

"What about him?" she asked not looking at me. Yup she still liked him.

"I heard you two have been spending a lot of time togeter." Renata said.

"What?" I asked suprised, "since when?"

"He's just been helping me learn different languages," she said quickly, "and Master Aro asked him to train me in fighting."

"So why do you like him?" I asked looking at another dress.

"He's just kind that's all." Chloe replied, but I had a feeling there was something more to it.

"Did you know that he and Heidi were together for a while?" I asked looking at her wanting to see her response. I smirked when she looked up completely shocked.

"Jane!" Renata hissed in my ear.

"What?" I asked her, "I don't see why it should be a secret."

"It makes sense," Chloe murmured pretending to look at a dress sizes, "she's very beautiful."

"Jane didn't say the complete truth." Renata said quickly.

"What do you mean?" Chloe looked disappointed and I kind of felt bad for saying something. Kind of, I still believe she didn't have a chance with him.

"They weren't together, together," Renata explained, "it was more a friends with benefits thing."

"Oh," Chloe said, "how long did that go on for?" she asked trying to sound uninterested.

"Not sure when they started it," I shrugged, "but it ended about a week after the Romains brought Raven back."

"Heidi stopped it because she believed it was preventing him from finding a mate." Renata continued.

"She must care about him then." Chloe stated.

Still feeling guilty for making her upset I decided to add to Renata's last statement. "She does care for them, but they never saw each other being more than friends. Heidi told me that when I found out about them."

Before we could continue, Heidi and Chelsea came up to us with more dresses.

"Hurry up," Chelsea said, "the quicker Raven picks out dresses for us the faster we get to torture her with wedding dresses."

"Chloe," Heidi said walking over to her and grabbing the strapless purple dress she was holding, "where did you find this?"

"Oh," Chloe said looking uncomfortable, "over there, I can put it back if you don't like it."

Heidi smiled and shook her head, "no, I think you found the dress Raven would love. Let's go show her."

Chloe nodded and followed Heidi to where Raven was sitting. When we heard Raven say she loved it, I put my dresses back mentally thanking Chloe.

"Ok Raven," I said dragging her towards the wedding dresses, "it's your turn."

Each of us picked out three dresses for Raven to try on.

"You look like a cupcake in that dress!" Heidi said laughing when Raven came out wearing a purple dress a very puffy dress on.

"I feel like one." Raven muttered.

"What do you think Chloe?" Heidi asked trying to stop laughing.

Again, Chloe looked uncomfortable, "It is a little showy." She said looking at Raven. I noticed Raven picked up on Chole's tension, but she didn't say anything and went to try on another dress. We went through all the dresses we picked out for her and she didn't like any of them.

"Let me look around." Raven said after trying all the dresses.

"Fine," I said, "we'll wait here."

"Can you help me Chloe?" Raven asked. Chloe nodded and followed Raven out of the private fitting room we were in. Once they were gone, Heidi spoke up.

"Did I say something wrong to Chloe?" Heidi asked looking at me and Renata.

"Jane told her about you and Demetri." Renata blurted out.

"Why?" Heidi asked looking at me.

I shrugged, "I didn't think it would be such a big deal. I figured since she like him she deserved to know."

"So she does still like him?" Heidi asked; Renata and I nodded.

Heidi smiled, "we should try to get them together." She said brightly.

"Why?" I asked, "we're not match makers, besides that's just you trying to find Demetri a mate."

Heidi sighed, "well ya."

"I'm going to have to take Jane's side," Renata said, "just leave it alone and if they get together then they get together. If they don't then you can start throwing all the women you want to at Demetri." I decided it would be best to not mention that Chloe is thinking about leaving; I could tell Renata decided the same thing.

After thirty minutes Raven came back with only one dress.

"Only one dress?" Heidi asked, "after thirty minutes you only come back with one dress?"

"I picked out a veil too." Raven said holding up a veil while Chloe held the dress.

"Don't you want other options to try on?" Renata asked.

Raven shook her head and smiled, "nope, this is the dress."

She entered the dressing room to put on the dress and veil. When she exited we all stood up smiling.

"You're right," Heidi said, "it's perfect on you."

Renata and Chloe agreed inspecting the dress as Raven turned around.

"It's totally you," I smiled, "simple yet elegant."

"I guess we found the dress then." Raven smiled admiring the dress in the mirror.

One week before wedding

The Cullens arrived yesterday for the wedding because we needed to make sure Nessie's dress fit her. Raven wanted Nessie to be the flower girl and picked out a dress when we went shopping. The issue with the dress was that we didn't know what size to get because Nessie keeps growing. When Nessie tried on the dress Raven had to fix it up a bit because, but other than that it fit her perfectly.

"You just keep growing." Raven said as she fitted the dress to Nessie.

"Grandpa said I should stop growing in five more years." She smiled spinning around in her dress.

"Well I bet you'll be a beautiful woman." Raven said putting away her sewing kit.

Nessie looked a little sad at the statement.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Well it's just I'm not ready to grow up." She admitted.

"Why?" I asked curious; I heard that children usually couldn't wait to grow up.

"Well," she said sitting down once she was in normal cloths, "mommy just seems to have my life planned out for me."

"How?" Raven asked.

"It's just she keeps talking about how happy I'll be with Jacob. I don't know what she means by that, but I just don't like it." Raven and I exchanged a knowing glance. It was no secret that the mutt imprinted on Nessie. I sighed not knowing what to say and looked away. Raven picked up Nessie and placed her in her lap.

"Your mother is just doing what she thinks would be best for you," Raven said, "but it's your life so live it how you want to."

"But my parents will hate me if I do."

Raven shook her head, "no they love you Nessie; their just being typically parents." Raven smiled at the child, "I remember all the fights I would have with my father about my life. It's part of growing up."

I looked at Nessie, "and you don't have to grow up," I said, "you can still act like a child at times; just look at Raven, she's a living example of that. Tow thousand years old and yet she still acts like a child the majority of the time" Raven stuck her tong out at me and we all laughed.

I looked at the time and stood up, "I have to go," I said, "I need to take Alec and the other guys to get their tuxedos."

"Bye Jane." Nessie waived as I left.

(Alec's POV)

Me, Afton, Demetri, Felix, Santiago, and the Romains were hiding in the library because Jane said we need to go get fitted for out tuxes.

"Jane's coming." Demetri said making me sigh. It's hard having a sister who can cause you pain with just one look. Lucky for me and Santiago she would never use her gift on me; unfortunately the others can't say the same thing.

Jane entered the library, "time to go boys." She said knowing we wouldn't argue. However, I still decided to play with her.

"Well hello to you too sister." I said not looking up form my book.

"Not in the mood Alec," she said taking the book for me, "we have to go."

I sighed standing up, "I was enjoying that book." I muttered while Jane rolled her eyes.

"Brother why must you always be so difficult?" I smirked at her.

"Because I can." I stated smirking at her.

"Well I can make your life miserable if you make us late for the appointment I set up." I sighed and followed her out with the others. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed the Romains observing my interaction with Jane. I couldn't tell what they were thinking because they both had no emoting on their faces, but I had a feeling Vladimir would confront me later about it.

"Are we done yet Jane?" Demetri complained as he was being fitted.

"Suffer through it." Jane replied from her seat in the corner of the room.

I chuckled earning an annoyed look from Demetri.

"Is this how you treat your best man?" Demetri asked looking very annoyed.

I shrugged, "you asked for it when you forced me to agree to a bachelor's party."

Demetri smirked, "and boy are you in for a great time." Jane chuckled obviously knowing what they're planning.

"Ok," the attendant said finishing up with Demetri, "we're all done." She turned to Jane, "Would you like to pay now?" she asked.

"Yes." Jane said pulling out her credit card while the guys, except me and Santiago, left heading back to the castle.

"Are we done now?" I asked Jane after she paid.

"Yes," she said taking Santiago's hand.

"I'll leave you two alone then." I muttered and went back to the castle.

I was sitting on my couch in my room reading when Vladimir knocked coming in.

"Yes?" I asked setting my book down. I noticed Stefan was behind him leaning against my door frame.

"We were curious about something." Vladimir said sitting in my chair.

"You're always curious." I muttered and heard Stefan chuckle, "what are you curious about?"

"About you and Jane." He said.

"What about us?" I asked expecting this conversation.

"Well we just thought how you two interact with one another was strange."

Now I was confused, I never found our interactions strange; "in what way?" I asked.

"Well," he said thinking, "for starters how you two address one another. I've noticed you address her as 'sister' more than 'Jane."

"What's so weird about that?"

Stefan stepped in, "usually siblings address one another by their names." He said shrugging, "we were just wondering why you address her as 'sister.'"

I never really considered that. Now that I think about that I started addressing her like that since we were turned.

"I'm not sure why," I admitted, "it's just how I've addressed her since we were turned."

"Does it annoy her?" Vladimir asked.

"Sometimes," I smirked, "depends on the situation. Of course Jane is easy to annoy."

"So we've noticed." Stefan muttered.

"You two also tend to be cold to one another." Vladimir continued.

This I knew. It's not that we didn't like each other; it's just that people always viewed as heartless people.

"Yes," I said, "but it's just how we are." I thought for a moment.

"We were always viewed as cold people ever since we were humans," I admitted, "I guess the attitude just grew on us."

"What are you two like when no one is around?" Vladimir asked looking interested.

I shrugged, "the same I guess. We pretty much know how to read each other's thoughts and emotions. No point in revealing them when we already know what they are." Vladimir looked deep in though and I got the impression that he was avoiding asking me something.

"Why are you really here?" I asked leaning back in the couch.

Vladimir hesitated and Stefan lost patience with him; "we are curious about your human lives." He said and Vladimir gave him an annoyed look.

"We don't talk about our human lives," I said crossing my arms; glaring at Stefan.

He raised his eyebrows at me, "clearly you don't, but I'm still curious."

"You're not going to let this go are you?" I asked looking at Vladimir who just shrugged.

"Why do you want to know?" I hissed, "and don't say 'because you're curious.'"

Vladimir sighed, "we just want to know why you and Jane are the way you are today. We were curious about why you despise humans so much." I raised my eyebrows at him and looked at Stefan who was waiting for my response.

"Why should I tell you?" I asked.

Vladimir shrugged, "we just thought it would help us understand you and Jane better."

I stared at them for a minute. That wasn't the response I was expecting. After a few minutes of deliberation I sighed and decided to tell them, but only because I knew they wouldn't let this go. I started from the beginning and didn't leave out any details. I even told them about Maria and what father did to Jane. They were just like Raven and listened without interrupting.

When I finished they remained silent and looked deep in thought.

"Happy now?" I asked after a few minutes of silence.

"I've got to give you and Jane a lot of credit." Vladimir said and I looked at him confused.

"For what?" I asked.

"For enduring all that hate for so long. Especially with no parent figure to help comfort you."

I shrugged, "we had each other." I said.

Stefan looked at me, "how did Jane cope?" he asked, "with the whole rape thing?"

"She never talked about it." I said, "but it did take awhile for Aro and Marcus to get her to admit that it happened and how she felt."

Stefan nodded and left the room making me stare at him in confusion. Vladimir answered my unspoken question.

"When he was human his little sister was raped," Stefan said, "she committed suicide before he could help her."

"Oh." I muttered not knowing what else to say.

Vladimir sighed and stood up, "I'm suprised how much you and I have in common." He admitted and I looked at him raising my eyebrows.

He shrugged, "my human father was very abusive to me too. When I was turned he was my first meal. Can't say I'm proud of killing him though."

"I guess fathers are the one thing sons look up to no matter what." I mumbled then looked back at him smirking, "so tell me old man still think you can beat me in a fight?"

Vladimir copied my expression, "watch it kid," he said, "I could take you no matter what."

"What about being blind?" I asked smirking at him

"Sounds like a challenge." He said as we walked towards the training room.

(Jane's POV)

I was walking past the training room when black mist caught my eye. I entered to see Alec using his gift on Vladimir.

"What's going on?" I asked curious.

"Your brother fails at fighting," Vladimir said as Alec stopped using his gift, "he lost a fight to a blind 'old man' ten times."

"I still say you cheated." Alec muttered and I raised my eyebrows at him.

"Really Alec?" I asked, "that's pathetic."

He glared and muttered to himself while I looked at Vladimir.

"Having fun embarrassing my brother?" I asked he laughed.

"Stefan and I are known for embarrassing younger Vampires."

"Yes I know," I said, "I heard you two drove Demeti insane over the years."

"I prefer to think of it as making him a better tracker." He replied smirking. Suddenly he stepped back a little and Alec landed on the other side of him growling in frustration.

"Wow," Vladimir said, "can't even get me when I'm distracted."

I laughed and watched for a while as Alec kept epically failing on beating Vladimir. I wondered what it would be like to see Stefan and Vladimir go at one another.

"That kid looks like he fails at fighting." Stefan said coming to stand by me.

"He's getting better," Vladimir smirked, "he stopped falling when I push him." Stefan laughed and watched in amusement with me.

Eventually Alec stopped attacking Vladimir clearly annoyed and Stefan and I as we continued to laugh and lecture him.

"Shut up!" Alec hissed looking defeated then looked between Stefan and Vladimir.

"What's on your mind kid?" Vladimir asked.

"I'd like to see you two fight." Alec replied with curiosity clear in his voice.

"Well it has been awhile since I've beaten Vladimir in a fight." Stefan said smirking at his friend.

Alec and I watched them go at each other for and hour. They knew each other so well that they could ready their moves instantly.

"I think it's a tie." Alec said after two hours of no one winning.

"I think you need more training in fighting brother." I said watching Stefan and Vladimir in awe.

"I was just thinking the same thing." He muttered and I laughed.

Day before wedding

"So what do you want to do tonight?" I asked Raven as we walked to the private garden. Women form the other covens were waiting for us there and some lower guard members, including Chloe.

"Whatever you girls want to do." She replied and I sighed; it was impossible to get Raven to say what she wanted to do.

We ended up playing all sorts of games throughout the night. Raven had a huge laugh when Heidi freaked out because a frog jumped into her hair. Four of us had to chase her around the garden while she squealed like a little girl. Other than that we spent the majority of the time playing games and socializing.

When the wives joined us I could tell the women around us thought of them as celebrities. We all got a lot of laughs as they talked about what Rave was like growing up. My favorite story was when Raven was five and got a hold of Caius's paint. Apparently she painted the castle walls and covered herself in paint as well. They found her by following the paint trail she left behind. When Caius tried to grab her to stop her; she threw paint at him. By the time they were able to stop Raven, the ancients were covered in paint and Raven's hand prints were all over the walls.

"So what are the boys doing tonight?" Raven asked me.

"Torturing Alec," I said smirking.

(Alec's POV)

"A strip club," I hissed as we walked up to the club, "really?!"

"What were you expecting?" Demetri smirked.

"We rented out the whole club for tonight," Felix said opening the door, "everyone is already here."

We walked inside and sure enough the room was full with guys from all the invited covens. I was even surprised to see the Cullens her.

Throughout the night the music played as some human girls danced on stage trying to impress us. Towards the end of the night I was talking to Vladimir when several people grabbed be.

"Can't fight Alec," Demetri said, "there are too many human witnesses here."

"What the hell are you doing?" I growled when they dragged me up on stage and tied me to one of the poles.

"Just having some laughs." Felix said then motioned to someone behind me. When five human strippers came up on stage I tried to free my bound hands. Laughter erupted around me as the girls started dancing.

"I'm going to kill you Demetri, Felix." I said low enough so the humans wouldn't hear me but loud enough to make everyone laugh harder. The torture continued for an hour and ended when I was ready to use my gift and get the hell out.

"Demetri!" Felix shouted from the entrance while Demetri came up to untie me, "I've got the video to show Raven!" With that he ran out of the club towards the castle.

"Untie me now Demetri!" I growled ready to kill Felix.

Demetri slowly untied me as the other left to the castle to see Raven's reaction. I would've just broken free, but the humans were still there watching us. Once the club was empty, Demetri untied me and I ran out at human speed, then at vampire once I was clear of the human's sight.

When I reached the castle I ran straight to the garden, but was too late. The video was playing on a large scene that Jane had set up in the garden.

"You were in on this?!" I hissed at Jane who was on the ground laughing.

"Raven," I said walking up behind her placing my hand on her shoulder.

"Y-Yes?" She said between giggles.

"Demetri and Felix set me up." I said quickly.

Raven started laughing hard and wasn't able to respond. The commoting attracted the Ancients who were working during the day.

"Now what's going on out here?" Aro asked looking at the video. I froze and glance over at Caius. He was watching the video with an unreadable expression. I stepped behind Raven prepared to run. When the video finally ended Caius looked glared at me.

"I can explain Master Caius." I said preparing to run.

"I think you should," he said darkly.

"Well...Umm," I struggled to find words, "Raven a little help."

"W-what?" she stuttered between laughs.

Caius turned to Felix, "explain why this video is only one hour long," he said, "didn't I say two hours?"

"He threatened to eat the strippers if we didn't release him," Felix shrugged.

"What?" I said completely shocked, "you were in on this master?"

Caius shrugged, "who do you think paid for the club reservations."

"I...Uh..." Ya I'm sure the world stopped spinning.

"Father," Raven said composing herself, "what did I say about being mean to Alec?"

"I wasn't mean," he said innocently, "I just paid for everything and asked for a video in return."

Laughter erupted around us as Raven patted my arm.

Can Vampires go into shock? Because I think I just did...

"Alright," Aro said chuckling, "the sun will be up soon, I believe it's time to start setting up everything and get the bride and groom ready."

Raven kissed my cheek and left with Jane and Heidi.

"So just to clarify," I said walking up to Caius, "I'm not going to die."

"No," he said, "at least not today." With that everyone walked out chuckling at my stunned expression.

This is why I hate parties...

Author's Note:

Review please

Sorry this isn't very good.

Two Chapter left T-T